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T he average householder has been unable by appearance 
to distinguish the difference between All-Clay China 
and Porcelain plumbing fixtures and other plumbing on 
the market—white in color, to be sure, but totally different 
otherwise. It is for the safeguard and guidance of such people 
as are truly interested in securing the genuine and best that we 
place this trade mark—our pride-mark on each and every piece 
of ware we manufacture. 
A log cabin somewhat resembling the primitive type, with 
the bark on the logs and a roof of poles instead of “store” 
material, and a ghostly welcome on the door 
BACK to the LOG CABIN 
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"Tepeco" Fixtures are true china and porcelain, gleaming 
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clay at such a high degree of temperature. Instead of merely 
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i a close, impenetrably hard surface which resists the adhesion 
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the Star within the Circle, be upon your plumbing fixture 
purchases. 
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rolling away into blue distance—a 
stream like a silver ribbon flung upon 
misty green meadows. -His house had 
two views—the dusty highway on one 
side and the garage upon the other. 
However—don’t think that 1 urge 
you to overlook practical details. By no 
means. A perfect summer can be 
ruined by having to carry water half 
a mile to the house—for by that time 
little water is left anyhow. Make 
everything as easy as possible. Don’t 
accent your “back-to-nature” so hard 
that you won’t have time to turn 
around occasionally and take a look 
at her. 
Yes, I am strongly in favor of using 
logs. We are only beginning to realize 
the artistic possibilities of logs. Until 
your site is chosen, however, and you 
give me a notion about what you 
want, I can’t give you more than this 
general suggestion. 
Best wishes for the Dream House— 
Aldrich. 
P. S.—Decided to enclose a few pic¬ 
tures of the cabins in and about “Pals’ 
Cove”, showing different tastes in sites; 
with the exception of two modern 
“pioneer cabins”, they are all on the 
Lake shore. 
Dear Mac:— 
The site you have chosen sounds 
good to yours truly—and I’m darn glad 
you have decided to build of logs. You 
will never be sorry even though, as 
you say, you had long cherished a 
fancy for weathered shingles. Shingles 
are all right at a summer resort or in 
fact any place where you have to wear 
a necktie to dinner to please your wife 
—but in a forest primeval I feel like 
the old logger who ran across such a 
construction one day and opined that it 
must have taken a doggone long time 
fer a feller t<' whittle all them off’n 
a log. A log cabin has the Topsylike 
aspect of having “jest growed.” 
And, man, think of the history of 
log cabins in this country! Did you 
ever stop to think that the reason we 
have so few great men nowadays is 
because there are so few log cabins for 
them to be born in? The political slo¬ 
gan of this country should be “Back to 
log cabins!” Then see what would 
happen. 
But right in this connection, let me 
dampen your enthusiasm over gather¬ 
ing up all the architectural books on the 
pioneer cabin. If you are going to be 
a pioneer, you are going to wear your 
pioneership, as somebody or other wore 
their rue, “with a difference.” This 
difference has its rise in a present day 
sense of freedom. Remember that our 
forebears utilized logs because they had 
no other choice for their house in the 
fastnesses: we utilize logs because they 
are first choice. Pioneering has become 
an art instead of a duty. Study them 
over all you want to—it will be an 
interesting dip into evolution, for how¬ 
ever beautiful they are, you will find 
an air of grim taciturnity and gritted 
teeth about the home of our fore¬ 
fathers which suggests a child set upon 
a stool and told to work her sampler. 
They are quaint—but aren’t they a bit 
severe and unhappy about it? Haven’t 
they a sort of al!-work-and-no-pIay 
Puritanism about ’em? 
Naturally enough. Seldom does one 
come across a pioneer cabin even to¬ 
day that is not constructed with a 
rank disregard of an intrinsic beauty 
in the logs themselves and what may be 
wrought of them. Casting our lot 
among fisher folk and “newcomer” 
homesteaders, we have ample opportu¬ 
nity to study the modern pioneer at 
close range. Oddly enough, though 
accustomed in his own native land to 
the beauty of stalwart, hand-wrought 
fashionings, the immigrant seems to de¬ 
spise the charm of sincere and thorough¬ 
going workmanship as soon as he sets 
foot upon our shores. He holds as 
his ideal from the first a better knock¬ 
down house than his cousin’s who came 
over four years earlier—enclosing a 
larger brass bed than his cousin’s—and 
a shinier golden oak dining-room table. 
In lieu of the price of these, he util¬ 
izes a log “shack” for which he con¬ 
stantly apologizes—as he patches it up 
twice a year, clapping on a board here 
and there to conceal poor workman¬ 
ship, adding various lean-to effects as 
his family or his live stock increases. 
In every line of the hill-roofed walls, 
with their logs ill-matched and fitted, 
sloppily chinked and calked, Js in¬ 
scribed the legend, “We hate this thing 
but it’s got to do for us until we can 
afford a factory-made house.” 
The greatest amaze I’ve ever seen 
upon a human countenance appeared 
upon the face of a Norwegian home¬ 
steader when he discovered that a reg¬ 
ular man would build a log cabin when 
he could afford something else—and 
that such a building could actually be 
beautiful. 
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